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Reapers Angelus

General backround
The Reapers Angelus are a Blood Angels successor chapter created during the 20th founding. Their chapter stronghold is located on the death world of Eclipse. Eclipse is in the Infern system.The planets of Infern are all volcanic death worlds. These death worlds are host to hive cites that are powered by thermal generators. These cities are built on artificially stabilized sections of the planets.


Creation of an angel of death
Once a canidate to become a Reaper is selected he is then taken to the Death Angels chapter stronghold on Eclipse. There they undergo the normal transformation process of a Blood Angel with one major difference. They do not drink the blood of Sanguinius. They instead initiate the gene seed by eating a mineral mined in the depths of Eclipse.


The Black Rage
The Black Rage is infamous among the Blood Angels and their successors. However among the Reapers Angelus the Black Rage is treated as a blessing from Sanguinius that allows them to slay the enemies of the emperor with greater effectiveness and fury. The death company are treated as holy. Instead of being killed after the battle they are put into stasis. The stasis holds of the chapter are ever filling as more soldiers are added to the revered ranks of the Death Company. In recent years the stasis vaults became so full that the Reapers Angelus were forced to expand the vaults underground. The numbers of the Death Company have risen so high that they are nearing the number of sane battle brothers. The Death Company are the only battle brothers besides the Chaplains and Reclusiarchs who have the honor of wearing suits of deep crimson armor into battle.



Chapter makeup
The Reapers Angelus are a non-conventional space marine chapter. They do not have a chapter master but are instead lead by the High Reclusiarch. The Chaplains, Librarians, Sanguinary Priests and Techmarines form his council. They do not have captains. Instead the companies are lead by the Reclusiarchs. The first company is the Death Company. The Reapers Angelus don’t have a veteran company. Instead each of the companies have their own veterans. The assault companies also keep their own bike and attack bike squads. The Reapers Angelus rarely use tactical squads because they prefer to take to the skies. As such the only tactical squads are in the tactical reserve company (the 8th company). The devastator squads come from the Devastator reserve company (the 9th company). The final reserve company is the scout company (the 10th company).

This army is going to be played by my friend whose account name is Sanguinary Priest Zendric. The edited version of the fluff is now on his post here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/415861.page#3661630 . Please post any comments on his post.

Thanks

Its a decent start, but the geneseed part needs work, I dont understand how eating vitamins help transform your warriors into astartes.